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TRADITION
The
gothic painters must obviously have known
how
things appear, though they chose not to peer.
They
knew that folds will swallow a fleur-de-lys
but
still, they said, we’ll keep the pattern even
then
paint the folds: flowers and folds faultless
as
in life they never are.
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(For full text see
the Kindle ebook The
Nature of Things (Collected Poems) by Alan Marshfield)
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